Combined window shade and curtain bracket.



G. W. WHITE. COMBINED WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10,.1908.

' Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

attowwq 1/05 hams GEORGE W. WHITE, OF STEUBENVILLE, OHIO.

COMBINED WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, .1909.

Application filed. August 10, 1908. Serial No. 447,791-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Steubenville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined l/ViIlClOW Shade and Curtain Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in combined window shade and curtain brackets.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which will no simple,

and comparatively inexpensive in construction, strong and durable in use, and easy to apply to and remove from a window frame without seriously marring the same.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of the novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

T ure 1 is a perspectiveview of the upper p, a of a window frame showing the imroved brackets applied; Fig. ,2- is an enarged perspective view of one of the brackets. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the other bracket; and Fig. 1 is a detail view oi the angular connecting and reinforcing plate.

In the drawings 1 and 2 denote the improved brackets, which are secured to a window frame and each of which comprises a horizontal body 3, a rearwardly projecting attaching screw 4, a curtain pole supporting arm 5, a snade holder 6, and a depending brace 7, which latter terminates in a for wardly and upwardly curved hook S. Said hook 8 may serve as an auxiliary curtain support, but its primary object is to permit the bracket to be oll'ectively grasped in the hand and turned to screw it into the window frame without the use of any tool. Each bracket is preferably formed from two pieces, a, b, of heavy wire or metal rod, one piece (I forming the central member 9 of the body 3, the curtain ole supporting arm 5, and the screw 4, and the other piece I), forming the side members 10, of the body and the brace 7, and hook arm 8. The wire Z), is bent upon itself to provide the side members 10, of the body, which side members receive the member 9 between them and have their forward ends upturned, as shown at 11, to brace the arm 5. The brace '7 and hook arm 8 are also formed by bending a portion of the wire 1) upon itself.

The ends of the wire 5 are united and the parts 7, 9, 10 are rigidly secured together by an angle plate 12 shown more clearly in Fig.

4. This plate has horizontal and vertical portions 13, 14, the former of which has its ends bent up around and over the members 9, 10 of the body 3 and the latter of which has its ends bent rearwardly around the spaced members of the brace 7, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The members 9, 10 of the body 3 are further united by the shade holder 6 which latter is in the form of a plate having one end bent around said members 9, 10, as shown at 15, and its other end extended upwardly and provided with means to receive the shade roller. As shown in Fig. 1, the shade holder of the left-hand bracket 1 is formed with a slot 17 to receive the fiat journal of the shade roller and the holder of the right-hand bracket 2 is formed with an opening to receive the cylindrical journal of the shade roller. The arm 5 extends vertically from the body 1, then outwardly and then forwardly, and its outer end is bent to form a curved seat 19 to receive the curtain pole.

, From the foregoing it will be seen. that the improved shade brackets exceedingly simple in construction and may therefore be produced at a small cost and will be strong and durable in use. Owing to the provision of the screw 4, the brace 7 and. the hook arm or handle 8, the bracket may be conveniently screwed into or out of a window frame without seriously marring the same.

Having thus described the invention, what is ciaimed, is:

A device of the character described formed from two pieces of wire or rod and comprising a body having three members. a curtain pole supporting arm, an attaching screw, a depending 1 sec terminating in a hook-like projection. one oi: the pieces of wire being lus-nt to form the curtain pole supporting arm, the intermediate member of the body, and the screw; and the other piece oi wire being bent to form the side members of the body and the brace, an angle plate uniting the pieces of wire and having the ends of one of its portions bent around the members of the bod and the ends of the other of its ortions ent around the members of the race, and a shade holder con sisting of a plate having one end bent around the three members of the body to unite them,

and its other end provided with means for en porting a shade roller. n testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. WHITE.

' Witnesses:

P. W. Bousunn, B. H. MAXWELL. 

